11 SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AS SOFT POWER
Introduction
The role of science in international relations has been studied under the topic of ‘science diplomacy’ (Kaltofen and Acuto 2018; Faehnrich 2017). However, the role of public science communication, that is, when science meets civil society outside institutions in the context of political matters, has not received much attention from diplomacy or international relations scholars (Leach 2012). We believe this gap can be more productively tackled from the perspective of soft power studies than from the diplomatic perspective. Soft power interactions include not only international institutions and states with their diplomatic efforts of liaison ...
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